What is the Challenge of Program Operations?
Starting a business is difficult even when you are blessed with all of your faculties, limbs, support, encouragement, financing. The challenge of Contrepreneurs® Program Operations is to foster entrepreneurship against all odds and to create the processes and procedures that, by their demonstrable success, will provide the support and services to ensure that all Contrepreneurs® projects succeed and that the lives of all Contrepreneurs® are changed for the better.
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Why is It a Challenge?
- There is no precedent for what Contrepreneurs® is taking on
- It’s too hard, not sexy, high risk, and a lot of work
- The institutions and resource channels don’t exist
- Non-profit alternatives do not typically engage in this kind of charitable work
- The disenfranchised are difficult, problematic, too banged up
- No clear, standardized process for identifying, vetting, potential Contrepreneurs®
- Odds are incredible
- The world is a difficult place, especially for those with physical, sensory, or social challenges
Why Do We Believe Improvement is Necessary?
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A credible and systematic approach for qualifying challenged individuals for business ownership does not exist
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Need new alternatives for advancement after workfare
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Advance and further integrate the social, private, and public sectors to be mutually supporting
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Demonstrate the advantages of free-market economy in building a better America for all Americans, including those that are physically, sensory, socially challenged
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Reveal the benefits of business, entrepreneurship, courage to the skeptical and disempowered
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Overcome the distrust and mistrust across the social fabric
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Transcend difficulty, adversity, and pain
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Objective of Program Operations
Apply social dollars to establish micro-businesses owned and operated by individuals who are physically, visually and socially challenged.
Goals of Program Operations
- Define Roles/Responsibilities Necessary and Sufficient for Successful Achievement of The Contrepreneurs® Mission
- Invent and Continuously Re-Invent Program Operations Team to Consist of the Most Qualified People and Reward them Generously for their Contributions to Our Mission and Our Success
- Develop, Coordinate, Deploy Procedures to Manage Program Operations
- Install Streamlined, Flexible Processes
- Establish Formal, Legal Relationships with Business Partners and continuously strengthen business-to- business collaboration
- Formalize, Implement and Continuously Improve Program Operations
- Establish and Maintain Performance Measurement using Modern Corporate Dashboard Tools
- Establish a reputation as the world’s most successful producer of micro-businesses
- Advise on a continuing basis Contrepreneurs® Donation Development and fundraising methods
Program Operations Concept of Operations
- Business Development
- Partnering and Partnerships. Everything Contrepreneurs® takes on will involve causing partnering and creating partnership. The Team of Advisors is a partnership of experienced leaders. Each Contrepreneurs® project will be a team of teams.
- Opportunities exist for For-profit Corporations, Franchises, Non-profit Corporations, Foundations and Charities to contribute their energies to partnering and partnership.
- G-Teams. Each Contrepreneurs® project will be led by a Guidance Team, a G-Team. This G-Team will consist of volunteers who have experience in the business being created as well as some core functions, such as financial management, program management, etc. supplied by Contrepreneurs®.
- G-Team Volunteering
- Contrepreneurs®
Program Operation Communities
- Practitioners: Small business men and women interested in assuring a Contrepreneurs® project's success
- Facilitators: Experts in business operations, team-building, process development and improvement
- Financial Institutions, Matchmakers: Experts in creating business environments that deliver products and services, add jobs, benefit the Free Market Economy
- Franchisors, Franchisees, Businesses: Any interest in the vision and mission of Contrepreneurs® qualifies you for consideration and a conversation about how you might contribute. If it hasn't been tried yet, it is probably worth a look!
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Performance Measurement and Measurable Results
- More Of
- Awareness Of Existence And Mission
- Exposure Through Public Media
- Name Recognition of Public Benefit Charity Status
- Multi-faceted Participation
- Credibility And Confidence We Can Deliver
- Less Of
- Difficulty Enrolling Donors
- Ambiguity Regarding Definition of Beneficiaries
- Standing Starts
- Unknown-unknown’s as they relate to Public Benefit Charitable Operations
Measurable Results for Program Operations
- Count of successful Contrepreneurs® as percent of total started (incremental, longitudinal)
- Number of people employed by Contrepreneurs® businesses (continuous) (direct lives changed) (incremental, longitudinal)
- Number of families changed (indirect lives changed) (incremental, longitudinal)
- Total Started as percentage of applicants (incremental, longitudinal)
- Number of states represented in applicant pool (incremental, longitudinal)
- Applicant demographics (incremental, longitudinal)
- Cycle Time from application to launch (elaborated for all key phases of stand-up) (incremental, longitudinal)
- Cost per start-up, cost per phase, cost per type of business (incremental, longitudinal)
- Micro-business performance (General Accounting Performance Analysis) (incremental, longitudinal)
- Others to be determined as Contrepreneurs® Project evolves
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